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2019-01-04
01:56:00

Salvador Agra arrived to Warsaw

Author: JP, BZ Photo: Jacek Prondzynski

The 27-year-old SL Benfica player Salvador Agra arrived to Warsaw on Thursday evening. Former youth international, who played 157 games at the level of the Portuguese league, also played in the La Liga (Real Betis) and Serie A (AC Siena). On Friday, Agra will undergo medicals at Łazienkowska.

Salvador José Milhazes Agra is an offensive footballer who appears both on the wing and in the middle of the front line. At the beginning of his career, considered one of the most talented Portuguese players, he was regularly appointed to the Portuguese youth national team, in which he played 19 matches and scored four goals. In the NOS League - Portugal's highest league competition - he appeared in 157 games in which he scored 27 goals and noticed 26 assists. The Portuguese spent first part of the season 2018/19 in the team from Cadiz, where he was loaned from Benfica. In the current season he played in six LaLiga2 and four Copa del Rey games. The best season in his career was the 2015/2016, when in Nacionalu CD he scored 13 goals in 41 matches and noticed 14 assists.

Agra started his career at the club Varzim CJ, from which - after 11 years of appearances in junior and senior teams - in 2011 he moved to Olhanense, where he was one of the architects of promotion to the top league, and was considered as the one of the greatest revelations in the League Zon Sagres. After a good performance in Portugal, the 20-year-old player then was bought by Real Betis, in which he played nine game at the level of La Liga. Spaniards put him on loan successively to perform in Serie A Siena and Braga, Academica Coimbra and again Braga. The footballer born in Vila do Conde then went to the mentioned Madeira Nacional, and in 2017 he was bought by the Benfica. It is worth noting that the club from the capital of Portugal usually reaches for the best native players available on the market. From there, the winger got on subsequent loans to Desportivo Aves, Spanish Granada and Cadiz CF, in which he played the last half year.

Agra therefore has the past and experience of the Portuguese (Nacional, Braga, Olhanense, Aves, Coimbra), Spanish (Betis, Granada and Cadiz) and Italian leagues (Siena). On Friday the athlete will undergo medicals, after which he can sign a contract with the Polish champion and strengthen the competition in the offensive.